87 The Watford fans are up on their feet to salute Pereyra whose two goals look to have given them an opening day win. He heads off the pitch to be replaced by Kiko Femenia. No hat-trick for him this afternoon.

74: Watford make their first change of the afternoon now as Gray comes off with Success on in his place. No goals for Gray today but he occupied the Brighton defenders well and combined nicely with Deeney.

63: Capoue does brilliantly to evade a couple of challenges with a swing of his hips and he sets another attack up as he spins into the Brighton half.

However, the Frenchman then undoes his good work by playing slack ball straight out of play. He's been impressive this afternoon and contributed towards Watford's midfield dominating their Brighton counterparts.

49: Stephens commits another foul on Capoue. By my count, that's three for him this afternoon and another one will surely result in a second booking. Captain Dunk is called over by Jon Moss and he is presumably telling him to keep Stephens in check.

CHANCE! From the resulting free-kick, Holebas sends a brilliant delivery towards the far post and the unmarked Kabasele bullets a diving header over the top! Big chance for the Belgian.

45: CHANCE! Gross has been a peripheral figure in this first half but he pops up on the right wing and flights a ball into the box towards Murray who steers a header just wide of the far post. Brighton need to get their German playmaker into the game more in the second half.

42: Hughes does well to wriggle away from a couple of challenges to set another Watford attack in motion. Brighton scramble to recover and crowd them out but Watford just look to be a little bit more energetic than their visitors.

33: Brighton are on a rare attack and Knockaert receives the ball on the right. He dips inside onto his left and unleashes a cross-shot towards goal that rebounds off Kabasele and is collected by Foster.

30: Pereyra has been Watford's go-to man in this half and he is off on another direct run down the left and into the area. He cuts inside Bernardo who was struggling to keep up with him but the cross is intercepted.

Two Brighton players are down on the pitch and it is their centre backs, Duffy and Dunk who clashed heads going up for a header. Duffy appears to be the one who has come off worse but both are fine to continue.

5: Brighton's corner is cleared and Watford are on the break with Pereyra leading the charge. They've got four on two momentarily but a promising opportunity breaks down as Doucoure loses his footing while looking to pass.

Let's hope last season's results between these two clubs will have no bearing on how things go this afternoon.

There was just one goal scored in 180 minutes of action between the two with Pascal Gross scoring the winner for Brighton at the Amex in December after they had played out a 0-0 draw at Vicarage Road in August.